Irving’s much-anticipated entertainment venue — The Music Factory — is getting closer to being built after the $165 million project received its funding earlier this year.

“Our biggest challenge is that people don’t realize that this project is real yet and we’ll be moving dirt in 90 to 120 days,” Noah Lazes, co-founder, president and COO of Charlotte, N.C.-based Ark Group, told the Dallas Business Journal in an exclusive interview.